My wife's netbook has two distributions installed on it: OpenSUSE 11.4, which she no longer uses much, and Debian testing.
The only reason why OpenSUSE is still installed is that, for some odd reason, it was remarkably easy to set up printing. My wife did it, and I do not know how she did it.
As regards Debian, despite about an hour of my messing with
apt-get, installing this or that driver from the repositories, this or that package from the manufacturer's website, printing documents only renders documents in Debian testing (the printer is a Brother HL-20XX). I don't know how to grab the error messages that might be arising from this, as it's all happening in the GUI, but would gladly supply them given knowhow.
So, how portable are printer settings between distributions, given that it's the same hardware, same architecture, etc.? Can I just move some files and folders around? Edit some text here and there? Or am I in for more headaches?